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" It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. "
Leonardo da Vinci
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" The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. "
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" You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. "
Leonardo da Vinci
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" We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom. "
John Piper
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" As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others. "
Sharon Salzberg
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" Giving opens the way for receiving. "
Florence Scovel Shinn
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Opens
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" Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. "
Leonardo da Vinci
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" If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. "
Lord Salisbury
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" Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. "
Laurence Sterne
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" It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God. "
John Wycliffe
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Me
" He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. "
Marcus Aurelius
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He
Who
" I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope. "
L. Ron Hubbard
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" Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. "
Mo Udall
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Words
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" Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. "
Francis Hutcheson
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Best
" Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. "
Laurence Sterne
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" Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. "
Bob Marley
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" My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better. "
Marlo Thomas
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" The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. "
Edward Young
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" The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. "
David Brainerd
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Moving On
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" The smallest feline is a masterpiece. "
Leonardo da Vinci
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" I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy. "
Ted Turner
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" The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang. "
Leonardo da Vinci
Bird
Glory
Fame
" To advise is not to compel. "
Anton Chekhov
Advise
Compel
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" Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest. "
Leonardo da Vinci
Light
Rest
Darkness
" Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. "
Saint Augustine
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" Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. "
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" I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense. "
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" I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best. "
Robert Kennedy
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" Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. "
Robert H. Schuller
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" Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. "
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" What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. "
Henry Ward Beecher
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